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Morris Katz, politics whiz kid, boy I don't know

Barak Ravid during the great war would be a good bit. Like every other week you'd see an old timey headline on the London Times or the Zeitenblatt saying "WAR SOON TO RESOLVE ACCORDING TO CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE"

This is not just left populism anymore, but "constraints do not exist" is a feature of all kinds of populism and had crept into the thinking of almost all thinking about politics online.

the lack of juice this man has these days

It's great how we're combining two North Carolina election arcs here

If I got a nickel every time Dem chances to take the Senate hung on Dem candidate sexting scandal I would have two nickels, which isn't much, but

90s nostalgia is so lit

Well

Having recently experienced Orlando this is slander, is July/August a pit of hell? Yes! May/June in the DMV are perfect though while Orlando in the same time is a mistake

Honestly, it kinda feels like post-2010 or so, the art of 'how to do an on-screen space battle' has been lost or at least badly fumbled (honorable exception to The Expanse).

A really fundamental problem is people think Trump can do whatever he want and in reality he’s mostly just done a tax cut

People who argue that laws are for suckers, and you just need to do shit because the opposition is the same, are to the same as Pete Hegseth arguing for war crimes

Fight Fire with Fire is cope. You wanna go try to put all these guys in jail for corruption? You gotta make a case and do it right so you don’t get laughed out of a grand jury. That’s completely different than buying some stock and saying “try and stop me”.

Because it’s a lot harder to make something built to last (and withstand legal scrutiny) than it is to flood the zone with shit and tell someone else to try to clean it up. The fight is asymmetric, all statements like this say is “I wish it was as easy to do good things as it is to do bad ones”.

Everybody is so mad theyre getting even stupider

Great just great

Idk if I was a creature of context I would look at the other deal which was almost reached several times between Russia and Ukraine and then check on who lead those negotiations to see if any of the leads matched up

I surely do not love seeing sitting Dem elected going on blueAnon podcasters/substacker websites

96% there

I do think New Glenn's recent failure and the many issues of both Starship and CLPS have shown the continued issues of the reliance on commercial partners for Artemis in any attempt to land on the moon. Or in other words if you want to do Artemis, we need to bring Block IB SLS back and maintain SLS

Ever time trumps tries to do Official Proclamation by Post instead of sounding historic and presidential like he wants, he comes off as someone Sending A Strongly Worded Letter To the World's Manager, while being ignorant of the fact that he is, in fact, the World's Manager

This is conspiracist bs. I do not love the commercial launchers but this is absolutely not the case

Btw one aspect of the Obama admin I really really could not stand was the space policy, like wanting to cancel SLS in favor of commercial carriers

Well, fuck

there’s no great realignment there’s no turbo liblab grand reconstruction driven by youth voters Only a secret third thing (chunking along like a weirdly-geared transmission with swings driven by anti-incumbent bias baked into the process for an indeterminate amount of time)

this, too, is glonzo

NGL the German in me is pretty smug recently after being lectured that privacy online doesn't matter for years

neat, frinkiac got a built-in way to stitch together frames

This is loss

Barak Ravid is truly the Jake Sherman of NatSec reporting

Crazy how now whenever you see a 30 pt ES gap intraday you can just immediately go “wow I wonder what Barak Ravid at Axios just tweeted about a new ceasefire deal” and be right 100% of the time

You'll never guess who is saying this again

In general shutting the fuck up about something is a political art that the GOP lost completely and that is becoming vanishingly rare in Democratic politics thanks to online.

Contrary to this common sentiment on this website, political campaigns are not teaching moments and neither does educating the voters really work.

Yes do that before the World Cup, I see no downsides here

Perfect headline, no notes

In doing so, he is squandering the single biggest advantage of the presidency. It's a way to guarantee that the president will be weak, and that the government will fail to produce good policy outcomes.

Important to document this; as I've said many times, Trump has set up his entire second presidency to allow him to never be confronted with information that might contradict his impulses and prejudices.

River approach delivers

His name is Jaxon, but it's ok, it's the Giants, not that it matters

Seeing 39b (last one) was cool and did I get a bunch of mission patches? Maybe!